A good book is not the same as a successful one.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

If you fatally kill fate, your life sentence will beto steer the reins of choice.

Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires - a villain.

I’ve known a boy. I’ve measured beauty. What more do I want?

I really wanted to work in the American industry because it's the leading industry. It's where film and television started.

It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.